New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsEvery person for the time being acting and recognised as being the bishop of a diocese, and having been consecrated according to the manner and form prescribed and used by the Church of England, shall in the construction of all Statutes, Acts, grants, deeds, and other instruments be deemed to be and shall be the successor of the bishop of such diocese, notwithstanding that such bishop may not have been appointed under letters patent from the Crown, or may have been consecrated in New South Wales or elsewhere without any mandate or licence being issued by the Crown for such consecration, and shall in all respects within such diocese have and enjoy all and singular the same rights, powers, and privileges, whether created by Statute, Act, grant, deed, or other instrument whatsoever as were enjoyed or possessed therein by the bishops his predecessors, and in the case of the diocese of Sydney the Most Reverend John Charles Wright, DD, the present Archbishop, and all other persons for the time being acting and recognised and consecrated as aforesaid, shall in the construction of such instruments as aforesaid be deemed to be and shall be the successors from time to time of the Bishop of Australia and the Bishop of Sydney.